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1991 Season Chat

Cost of Living 1991How Much things cost in 1991
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 4.25%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 3168
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 6.50%
Average Cost of new house $120,000.00
Average Income per year $29,430.00
Average Monthly Rent $495.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.12
1 LB of Bacon $1.95
Dozen Eggs 85 cents

What Events Happened in 1991
Kuwait
Operation Desert Storm United Nations Coalition Force led by the United States and including many Arab and European countries Bombs Iraq Forces in Kuwait and after 1 month of bombing Land invasion forces Iraq Forces out of Kuwait and back to Iraq

Russia
Boris Yeltsin wins first free elections for Russia's first popularly-elected president.
U.S.
Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment

U.S.
Former U.S. postal worker Joseph Harris kills his former girlfriend and her fiance and two former co workers at the post office in Ridgewood, New Jersey which resulted in the phrase "going postal" .

Technology

Internet is made available to unrestricted commercial use and number of computers on the net reaches 1 million
Linus Torvalds releases first version of the Linux operating system kernel
The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid
Microsoft Releases MS Dos 5.0
Blue Roses produced by Genetic Engineering
The Ice covering the Arctic has decreased by 2% in the last 10 years
Tropical Rainforest shrinks by 1% annually as a result of Human activities
Tim Berners-Lee introduces the web browser.
Spread of Cholera reaches near epidemic proportions in Countries in Latin America
Popular Culture 1991

The release of Nirvana's Nevermind signified the start of the Grunge era that would dominate the music scene up to the mid-90's.

Popular Films

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
The Silence of the Lambs
Hook
The Addams Family
Sleeping with the Enemy
Father of the Bride
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
Beauty and the Beast
Backdraft
Beethoven
Thelma & Louise

"Hello Clarice"
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
- Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in 'Silence of the Lambs

"I crap bigger than you"
- Jack Palance in 'City Slickers

The Scandal:

Kentucky Fried Chicken officially changed its name to KFC. Conspiracists claimed that it was because they weren't selling actual chickens, but some kind of cloned, headless chicken bodies. The original name was shortened so it would no longer be "false advertising."

Yup. I already did it in-game, and also permanently fixed it. It should be at $20mil at the beginning of every season for anyone that didn't lose money. We'll obviously keep raising that cap though as time goes on.

If you have an offer you want to make that you couldn't just shoot me a PM and I'll submit it for you after I import.